Daphne Koller Biography

Daphne Koller received her BSc and MSc degrees from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Israel and her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1993. After a two-year postdoc at Berkeley she returned to Stanford where she is now a Professor in the Computer Science department. Her main research interest is in developing and using machine learning and probabilistic methods to model and analyze complex domains. Her current research projects include models in computational biology and in extracting semantic meaning from sensor data of the physical world. Koller is the author of more than 150 refereed publications which have appeared in venues spanning Science Nature Genetics the Journal of Games and Economic Behavior and a variety of conferences and journals in AI and Computer Science. She has received nine best paper or best student paper awards in conferences whose areas span computer vision (ECCV) artificial intelligence (IJCAI) natural language (EMNLP) machine learning (NIPS and UAI) and computational biology (ISMB). She has given keynote talks at more than 10 major conferences also spanning a variety of areas. She was the program co-chair of the NIPS 2007 and UAI 2001 conferences and has served on numerous program committees and as associate editor of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research and of the Machine Learning Journal. She was awarded the Arthur Samuel Thesis Award in 1994 the Sloan Foundation Faculty Fellowship in 1996 the ONR Young Investigator Award in 1998 the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) in 1999 the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award in 2001 the Cox Medal for excellence in fostering undergraduate research at Stanford in 2003 the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 2004 the ACM/Infosys award in 2008 and the Rajeev Motwani Endowed Chair in 2010 and was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 2011.

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